My Better Half

2 - Party at Alpha Tau Omega

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After we finished eating, Blake drove us back to campus and I went to the party. Blake was supposed to go with me but he was "tired" and needed to call his girlfriend before he went to sleep.

I decided I was going to go and have fun, as I had a Literary Theory and Criticism class at 12:00 tomorrow. I walked through the door as the smell of muggle herb, alcohol, and sweat filled my nose.

I walked past these two girls making out as the guys watched.

I went and got a bag of chips and sat in the corner.

A guy with brown hair and dark brown eyes walked up to me and gave me a smile. I smile back as I pulled my phone out of my pocket.

I scrolled through Instagram as he plopped down next to me on the floor. He held out his hand to me as I looked up from my phone.

"I'm Lip. Lip Gallagher." the boy said as he continued to hold out his hand.

I kindly took it and gave it a slight shake. I needed to make friends somehow, right?

"I'm Elena. My last name's not important." I said as his eyes lit up.

"I like your accent. Are you from London?" Lip asked as held his cup in his hand.

"Yeah. Born and raised." I said as I grew bored.

He began to say something else as I held up my finger.

"Please don't ask me about London and I'm in a relationship so please don't try to flirt with me." I said as I looked back down at my phone.

He began to chuckle as I cocked my eyebrow.

"I'm sorry, you found that funny?" I asked as I looked up at him.

He began chuckling harder as he clutched his sides.

"You're feisty. I only wanted to talk. Make a friend." Lip revealed.

I sighed as I began to chuckle a little too.

"Have no friends here? You from out of state?" I asked as continued to eat my bag of chips.

"No, I'm from the South Side. All my friends were a little too below the bar to finish high school, let alone come to college." Lip said.

I chuckled nervously, unsure of what to do.

"What about you? What brings you to Chicago?" Lip asked.

"Want to be a lawyer. Didn't want to study in London because of some stuff that happened. Heard this was one of the best schools for law and pre-law in the States." I told him.

He nodded his head in understanding as a guy and his girlfriend, or who I assumed to be his girlfriend, began to argue.

"You're such a bitch. I wish we never hooked up." the guy said.

"Yeah, I wish we could both redo this two minutes, don't we Kyle?" the girl said.

I looked over at Lip and we burst out laughing.  I almost doubled over as I calmed myself down, a few tears falling from my eyes. I looked over at Lip and he was still laughing. As he calmed down, our eyes met.

"You want to go with me? I'm going to meet one of my coworkers." Lip said.

"Yeah, sure. I'm ready to leave anyways." I said.

I pushed myself off the couch as Lip followed behind me. We left the house as we made our way over to the cafeteria hall.

A guy came out just as we reached the back entrance and he began to talk with Lip. After about a moment, the man went back into the cafeteria and Lip walked over to me.